***1/2 out of **** Rated PG-13 (for intense sequences of sci-fi violence, suggestive content and some disturbing images) Released: March 31, 2017 Runtime: 107 minutes Director: Rupert Sanders Starring: Scarlett Johansson, Pilou Asbaek, Takeshi Kitano, Juliette Binoche, Peter Ferdinando, Michael Pitt, Chin Han Available to rent through Amazon Video or buy on 4K, Blu-ray, and DVD. Proceeds from purchases made through these links go [...]
*** out of **** Rated PG-13 (for thematic elements, disturbing images, violence, brief sexuality, nudity, and smoking) Released: March 31, 2017 Runtime: 124 minutes Director: Niki Caro Starring: Jessica Chastain, Johan Heldenbergh, Daniel Brühl, Shira Haas, Michael McElhatton, Efrat Dor, Iddo Goldberg Available to rent through Amazon Video or buy on Blu-ray and DVD. Proceeds from purchases made through these links go to support [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDcAlo8i2y8 Like the trailer says: the war is on. It'd be safe to add that the expectations are now officially high, both for the broad scope of this film's ambition as well as the latest evolution in detailed digital performances on display in the apes' conversations. They're as good as anything we've probably seen from this technology. War for [...]
Finally: DC actually follows through on a no-brainer. Joss Whedon, creator of TV's snarky female action hero series Buffy the Vampire Slayer, is set to write, produce, and direct DC's standalone Batgirl movie. You read that right: complete creative control (or at least as close as one gets to that in these cinematic universes). After having been burned, [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nd60i3ZnLOE If the old school poster is any indication (see below), Jurassic World director Colin Trevorrow is hoping his new indie feature The Book of Henry evokes kid-centric Amblin adventures from a generation ago (E.T., The Goonies, etc.), with a few dashes of twee for good measure. If the first trailer is any indication, he's not going to equal his ambition. [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZsG7WJVZv8 Who knew CGI overkill could be so glorious? In the hands of Luc Beeson - director of other sci-fi extravaganzas like The Fifth Element and Lucy - high energy spectacle is a guarantee. The latest trailer for Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets offers up more of exactly that, with two central performances by Dane DaHaan and Cara Delevingne that appear to be on target [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyJgGsZo2wA From the studios that brought us an endless stream of Ice Age movies (but made up for that with entertaining entries like The Peanuts Movie and Rio), Blue Sky Animation and 20th Century Fox give us their holiday entry Ferdinand. Based loosely on the 1930s children's book "The Story of Ferdinand" (which was previously adapted into a short by Walt Disney Studios that went [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_3NMtxeyfk Boo. In what is the antithesis of how a new Best Actor winner should strategically follow-up the biggest boost of his career, recent Academy Award recipient Casey Affleck reteams with actress Rooney Mara and filmmaker David Lowery (Pete's Dragon) in a strange, experimental low budget movie that had people talking at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival. Simply titled A Ghost Story, Affleck plays the deceased husband [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39udgGPyYMg More Spidey action. More villain reveal. Everything looks and feels exactly right, from this new trailer to the recent posters that debuted. Could this be the best Marvel movie since the first Iron Man? We'll know when Spider-Man: Homecoming opens on July 7, 2017.
https://youtu.be/SU-bdMPV0V4 Nicole Of Arabia? That's the epic vibe here in the trailer for Queen Of The Desert, starring Academy Award winner Nicole Kidman. It's the true life story of Gertrude Bell, an early 20th Century iconoclast who, among her many varied interests and talents, was a British spy. T.E. Lawrence himself shows up in the [...]
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